On 07/10/2013 09:53 AM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote:
> Jane Street has a spare server we would like to donate to the postgres
> community. We originally planed to use it for one of our database clusters
> and it matches exactly what we use in production at the moment.
>
> Rough specs:
> CPU: 8x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz
> MEM: 48GB
>
> The server will probably be most interesting for the disks in it. That is
> where we spend the largest amount of time optimizing (for sequential scan
> speed in particular):
>
> 22x600GB disks in a Raid6+0 (Raid0 of 2x 10disk raid 6 arrays) + 2 spare
> disks. Overall size 8.7 TB in that configuration.
>
> Is this something the community would find useful? If so, who is the right
> person to talk to about shipping/delivery?
Mark, we can use this in the performance farm, no?
I know I could use it for testing ...
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